I Give Life To That Which I

Negotiating The Adolescent Stage Is Neither Quick Nor Easy. . . . I Have Often Said To Parents, "if It Isn't Illegal, Immoral, Orfattening, Give It Your Blessing." We Do Much Better . . . If We Find And Support All The Places We Can Appropriately Say Yes, And Say Only The No's That Really Matter.

Over The Years I Have Developed A Picture Of What A Human Being Living Humanely Is Like. She Is A Person Who Understand, Values And Develops Her Body, Finding It Beautiful And Useful; A Person Who Is Real And Is Willing To Take Risks, To Be Creative, To Manifest Competence, To Change When The Situation Calls For It, And To Find Ways To Accommodate To What Is New And Different, Keeping That Part Of The Old That Is Still Useful And Discarding What Is Not.

Put Together All The Existing Families And You Have Society. It Is As Simple As That. Whatever Kind Of Training Took Place In The Individual Family Will Be Reflected In The Kind Of Society That These Families Create.

I Know People Can Change-right Down To My Bones, Through Every Cell, In Every Fiber Of My Body-i Now That People Can Change. It Is Just A Question Of When And In What Context.

I Think If I Have One Message, One Thing Before I Die That Most Of The World Would Know, It Would Be That The Event Does Not Determine How To Respond To The Event. That Is A Purely Personal Matter. The Way In Which We Respond Will Direct And Influence The Event More Than The Event Itself.